Hey Scrapaneers!! I'm super excited to be part of the team here and hosting this month's 2nd challenge. I can't believe the year is almost over. 2017 went by super fast for me and was packed with tons of events and happenings both bad and good.
For this challenge I want to keep things simple. So simple that I'm giving you all a minimalist challenge. Many times in life and in scrapping we end up taking on "all the things". For this minimalist challenge I'm giving you all a recipe to follow which will keep your page simple. I know for many it is hard NOT to use all those beautiful elements in the kits we have, but many times less truly is more. So embrace this challenge with me.
Minimalist Recipe
1. no more than 3 patterns and ONLY 1 solid for the MAIN background
2. 1 photo in classic Black & White
3. 6 Elements Total. That's it!
4. 2 lines of journaling, or you can use two word strips that will NOT count against your 6 element total
5. Have fun and embrace the clutter free process.
Here is my layout.
Created using: Silver Linings by One Little Bird of The Lilypad and freebie template by Mommyish of The Lilypad
Please upload your layout into the Challenge Gallery and post a link to it here in this thread by December 31, 2017.
You can find directions for uploading layouts to the gallery here and how to link the layout to this post here.
And now for the prizes (all prize winners chosen randomly):
(1) $30.00 discount coupon towards a class of your choice
(1) $20.00 discount coupon towards a class of your choice
(1) $10.00 discount coupon towards a class of your choice
You can only win one prize per challenge each month.
**Please note** There will now be two challenges per month and you can now save your discount coupon to combine them to be used at a later date for a class or live event.

Thank you to everyone that played along in this first half of the month's challenge! The winners are listed below:
(1) $30.00 discount coupon towards a class of your choice – Suzanner
(1) $20.00 discount coupon towards a class of your choice - Skivvy
(1) $10.00 discount coupon towards a class of your choice - Breeoxd
When you are ready to use your discount coupon please contact Student Support with the name of the class you would like to apply it to since coupons are class specific. Prizes in the challenges can be saved and combined for purchasing a class or event. Any balance after purchasing a class will be forfeited. Thank you again for joining the challenge!
There's a new challenge for January up now.

ROFL I know you are. I go back and forth between the two so it comes a little easier, but some of these kits you can't help it. You just go, "one more element" rofl!!! You did amazing...even if you varied!

I decided to go through all my printed pages and actually verify them against the photos I have so that I can make sure to get all the old photos scrapped for 2018 that I missed since I don't scrap chronologically.